They hit like hand grenades
When they fall to the floor
Precious pearls of pain
Casualties of war
Might as well take a knife
Shove it through my heart
If you're gonna let those
Big blue eyes start
Have some mercy on this man

Scream and shout, cuss me out

It's ten after 2am he's stumbling in
Drunk again tonight
By the way he slams the door
She knows she's in for a fight
She raises her hands up to guard her face
And tries to remember those vows she made

She ain't seen the man she married
Since the day they said 'I do'

The wind blew cold on that mountain
On the night that I was made
Pale moonlight poured on that cabin
As the shadows dance to a hoot owl’s serenade.

When that fire burned down to ashes
Daddy stared out the window pane
Momma knew without askin’
Her travelin’ man had n

Her daddy hated his tattoos
but she was in love with a baby due
In September, early September.

So they called the kinfolk, set up the bar
Threw some chairs out in the yard
And got a preacher, a pentecostal preacher

And the man on the evening news
Promised sunny an

This ride won't last forever, it's one circle 'round the sun
There's no strings, no web waiting to be spun
Can't you hear the music playing, it's a carefree circus song
We'll rise and fall and land where we belong and

When the horses all touch down
And the colors all stand

Hey, lady, can I pour you something? Hate to say it, honey, you're a mess
I see that mascara running, looks like somebody up and left
Did he leave you for another woman, go out for cigarettes
Ten to one you didn't see coming, nothing 'bout love is a real safe bet
So, dry your eye

As pure as a kiss from the lips of god
A red rose bloomin out a canyon rock
Through a hole in the clouds she fell one day
And left her home on high so far away

From the day she came into this world
There were tears in the eyes of that baby girl
We tried everything to he

I walked into the gymnasium
With a corsage in my hands
Pulled a girl out
Of the big crowd
And invited her to dance

Everybody's laughing out loud
I don't know what they're laughing about..

Checked my ankles for my trousers
My back for a 'kill me' sign
Bribe

Toothpick's in my eyelids lying wide awake in bed
Toss-in and turnin like the sea
Moonlight shinin in like headlights in my room
Hypnotized by the strips on my tv

Whoo I'd give anything
For just one goodnight sleep
One goodnight sleep

Counted a hundred different h

I might lie awake in the dead of night
A prisoner of the moon;
I might curse this world and yell at god
But it won't be over you.

I might press this poison to my lips
Drown myself in ninety-proof;
Wash up on the rocks of an empty glass
But it won't be over you.

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Another empty motel morning
In a town with no name
Cold coffee keeping me going
White light driving me sane

Dashboard painted with pictures
Of loved ones I left behind
When I thought the highway held the answers
To the restlessness I feel inside

Where do you r

Saw a picture in the paper
My baby, and her husband to be
Ceremony is on sunday
Honeymoon in waikiki
She was smiling like a float in a parade
Happiness written all over her face

I knew someday she'd move on
Man it didn't take her long
How'd it come to this?

The willows are weepin
The grass is bowed down
Coming down from the mountain
Drifts a high lonesome sound
Down in the valley sorrow runs deep
The river stands still as they lay him to sleep

And the twin fiddles play and the whippoorwill sings
All the angels in heave

Redbird outside my window
Sings a sad and lonesome song
But his words won't have wings
When I find the strength to move on

Everyday the cut feels deeper
But I know that I'll survive
Cause my faith is far stronger
Than the pain of your goodbye

You can burn me d

I keep havin' this dream where I'm inside this lion's mouth
And everytime I climb right back in soon as I get out
Wake up out of breath, in a cold sweat
Ah, her leavin' almost left me for dead, knocked me down
Felt like some kind of cosmic kick in the head
I tried, I tried my

I don't know if I've said anything
In this life that's worth remembering
Nothing bold, nothing brave
Just these tired old phrases
And I don't know what they mean

I've written my old self a letter
I've moved on, I already forget her
She's gone, we're alone, far from

I am a monkey in a cage
I am a prisoner of your love
I was a solitary man
Until the day you opened up like a rose
And I fell inside
And your heart, it froze
And I'm trapped under the ice

You welcomed me with open arms
I drank so freely from your cup
I slept

Trash bag full of roses on the sidewalk by the street
Love lies decomposing with the flowers at her feet
Alley cat she cries picking through the bones
Trash bag full of roses, her heart has turned to stone

Don't worry I'd be eating if I had an appetite
I've never seen the s

Day after day I stare down this road
And this clock in my chest just ticks away
Night after night I go to bed alone
Oh, how long must I wait
Don't you know it ain't supposed to end this way
Oh, the river rolls to the sea
Thru the mountains, thru the trees
Winding its

Weary angel, oh I know I have been a heavy cross to bear
Weary angel, hear my heart's cry
Because your love's my only prayer

Weary angel can you save me
Even though your wings are tired
Lift me from this lonesome valley
Take me high me high above the fire
I tried to